I was sitting around in the yard this morning when my brother Barry pulled in on his Harley Motorcycle. We shot the bull for a bit then he said you want to go for a ride meaning on the dirt bikes. My body was pretty sore so I said sure but stay off the really steep stuff.
Spinning out
He walked across the street to get his dirt bike. I put gas in another brother’s bike and rode over to meet him and we rode on up into the redwood forest flying up and down the roads. The ground is drying out so I spun out a couple times, that’s when the back wheel walks out to the side and you find yourself headed off the road. I just stop quick, usually killing the engine, but that’s better than running off the roads as some of the spots are real steep.
Break time
Anyway we rode around for a couple hours then I left him so he could ride up some steep stuff and I went on home were some food and a nap were in order.
Dead battery
Eventually Barry came back to my yard. When he was ready to leave his Harley wouldn’t start from a dead battery. He said it was dead when he left his house, but he thought it should of got charged up enough, but it didn’t.
Here he is trying to start the bike but it wouldn’t turn over.
Not to worry he says and digs in his bag for his jump starter battery he brought along just in case.
That did the trick. It started right up so he put things back in his bag and roared away.
Eating radishes
The radishes I planted a few weeks ago or so are starting to develop radishes.
Here’s one of the radish patches I planted. You can see some red radishes in there if you look hard.
They’re not very big, but they are edible and a bit hot. I ate a few. I like to eat things right out of the garden while I’m in the garden.
Pole beans and slugs
My pole beans are starting to take off after fighting the slugs off them for a couple weeks. I seemed to have slowed the slugs down and now the plants are big enough they should survive even if they do get on them. When the plants were small they could eat the whole plant and kill it of which they did kill a couple of them before I started picking them off with a tweezers and a flash light late at night.
I drifted into the blueberry patch several times today to eat a few as they are starting to ripen up. There’s quite a few of them.
My red roses are putting on a nice show too.
I took it easy the rest of the day and mostly chair hopped around the yard.
Peeps shipping soon
Our peeps are supposed to be shipped tomorrow so we should be in the chicks in a couple more days.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
